30. November 2004 • Brandon
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Pork for Thanksgiving?:
Several entities in Washtenaw and Livingston counties were big winners in the federal appropriations bill that recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
A review of local projects, including transportation and capital improvement initiatives, written into the $388 billion spending package for the next fiscal year shows local representatives brought home the bacon, despite a mounting federal deficit.
U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, whose district includes eastern Washtenaw, western Wayne and all of Monroe counties, secured more than $12 million in funding, more than a quarter of which will directly benefit Washtenaw County.
Notable windfalls were awarded to the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority ($1 million), a SEMCOG light-rail study ($1.5 million), and the UM Health System ($600,000).
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Given that the money probably would have gone to Alaska to build an 8 lane highway that dead-ends in the tundra if it hadn’t come here, I suppose I can be unabashedly happy it came here. At least these are more efficient uses of federal $s.
(Even more so because more federal dollars spent on transit means fewer federal dollars spent in the future on roads…)
—Murph Nov. 30 '04 - 02:27PM #
—Kat Nov. 30 '04 - 04:19PM #